The official kick-off of the construction phase of the Green Line Extension project took place at a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday at Union Square in Somerville.

The event coincided with the $225M release of funding for the project by the federal government.

Erica Voolich congratulates (back)Samuel Saron, Desmond Feldman, Benjamin Novik, Nicolas Ragusa, (front) Saja El-Saudi, Lizbeth Figueroa, Mekhribon Otajonova, Mei Mei Collins on winning Somerville Math Fund renewable scholarships for outstanding work in math & science.

The Somerville Mathematics Fund is pleased to announce the winners of their renewable mathematics scholarships for 2018. The Math Fund was founded to celebrate and encourage math achievement and these students deserve to be celebrated for their work in math and science while in high school. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals and a few organizations, this year we were able to award a record 8 scholarships, totaling $32,000 over four years.

Eagle Feathers #156 – Camouflage

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

He was an eminent American sculptor, draftsman, painter and craftsman. Emilius R. Ciampa was a ten-year old Italian immigrant when he arrived at Boston’s North End in 1906.

By Herman Schwartz-O’Brien

According to a report by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the recently recovered remains of a U.S. Marine from Somerville killed in World War II came home for burial.

By Donald Norton

This past Tuesday, the Somerville Rotary Club inducted its newest member, Lisa Ramos, who recently became the new Manager of Century Bank in Somerville on the Fellsway. Pictured with Lisa is the club’s President Kevin Su and Past President Paul Kaufman.

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An article I wrote some years ago that appeared in the all-poetry edition of Spare Change News:

Jeff Robinson, founder of The Jeff Robinson Trio, holds court every Sunday Night at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Ma. In the basement of the Cambridge Common restaurant, he performs a sort of wedding ceremony. This is a musical and lyrical ceremony in which poetry and jazz are paired and they make a perfect match. With Robinson on sax, Blake Newman on bass, and Jerome Deupree on drums, Robinson infuses the poetry of such local poets as Marc Goldfinger, Carla Schwartz, and Joyce Cuhna, with the Be and the Bop of Jazz.

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Wyn Cooper has published five books of poems, most recently Mars Poetica. His work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Slate, and more than 100 other magazines, as well as in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry. His poems have been turned into songs by Sheryl Crow, David Broza, and Madison Smartt Bell. He has taught at Bennington College, Marlboro College, the University of Utah, and at The Frost Place, and has given readings throughout the United States as well as in Europe and South America. He is a former editor of Quarterly West, and the recipient of a fellowship from the Ucross Foundation. He worked for two years at the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation, and now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he works as a freelance editor.

Arrests:
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Jillian Bourque, of 19 Adams Ave., Saugus, June 18, 8:15 a.m., arrested at Mystic Ave. on charges of larceny under $1200 and conspiracy.

Casey Fitzgerald, of 6 Redmond Ave., N. Reading, June 18, 8:15 a.m., arrested at Mystic Ave. on charges of larceny under $1200 and conspiracy.